Book Review: “Danielle Kidnapped: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Ice Age”

Danielle Kidnapped: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Ice Age

Danielle Kidnapped is a new survival novel written by John Silveira, senior editor of Backwoods Home Magazine.

Because of Silveira’s significant experience as a writer, this is a
well written novel. Many survival novels floating around are reduced to a
dream list of gear and resources to have. There’s a perfect, almost
godlike protagonist, and the book becomes a report of how everything
pretty much goes along as planned.

In this case extreme cold weather has marked the begging of a new ice
age. Crops have failed and caused a widespread socioeconomic collapse.
Food has become very scarce and millions escape the colder northern US
states looking for warmer weather down south.

Sixteen year old Danielle is escaping to the southern states with her
family when they are attacked by a gang that prays on refugees. After
being robbed, her parents and brother are left to die at the side of the
frozen road. She along with her baby sister are taken captive by the
ruthless gang and her nightmare beings. The beginning of the book is
pretty dark and grim. After being abused by her captors Danielle is just
another mouth to feed, so the future doesn’t look very good for her and
her baby sister.

Another character is soon introduced. He’s more of a classic
survivalist type, and while not unrealistically well prepared, he does
have previous skills and knowledge that allow him to fare better after
disaster strikes. In spite of this, he’s far from perfect and does have
his own demons to deal with.  These two characters present a nice
contrast between someone that is better prepared, also more experienced,
and someone that is basically a typical teenager with a strong will to
survive and keep her baby sister alive.

I definitely recommend Danielle Kidnapped. I read it all the same day
I got it, which I believe says a lot of how it keeps you turning pages
wondering what will happen next. It is a trilogy, so there’s two more
books coming up. In my opinion, its there with some genre classics like
Matt Bracken’s Enemies trilogy and Castigo Cay David Crawford’s Lights Out. All of them highly recommended.

Danielle Kidnapped is available on Amazon both on paperback and kindle.

FerFAL

2013-03-12 13:08:45

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